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Two things you can do to improve your DEV home feed

Ben Halpern on June 25, 2020

Go to /settings/ux and select your "experience level" from 1-5 whether you consider yourself a newbie or an experienced dev. This will gently tail...

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Ben Halpern • Jun 25 '20

Here are my top-weighted tags all in all.

Tobija Zuntar • Jun 28 '20

Is there a way to opt out of / ignore certain tags? For example, if I want to see posts about java but not android?

jeikabu • Jun 26 '20

I set some a while back and wasn't really sure if it was working. What's the range of accepted values and how do they work?

I set a particular tag to 2.0 and seems like I still miss posts and occasionally still manually check the tag.

Helder Burato Berto • Jun 25 '20

Amazing! Thanks for the tip.

Doug Tangren • Jun 26 '20

Thanks for the tips. You folks are the best.

Ben Halpern • Jun 26 '20

🥰

negue • Jun 26 '20

The experience level selection for me is a bit weird, because I may be quite experienced in one topic, but not even close to understand anything on a different topic

so setting a generic "level" doesn't really make sense, atleast for me

Ben Halpern • Jun 26 '20

Yeah that’s why it’s an emphasis on gently. It’s not going to radically impact your feed but will be a subtle indicator.

Rich • Jun 30 '20

What are the upper bounds? Or is it a "in relation to each other" type of thing where we have our own scale?

Could I follow a tag I don't like (i..e #Career, #Productivity, etc) and give it a weight of zero to ignore it, since there are no "I dont want this tag" sort of thing? Would make my experience much smoother! :)

erica (she/her) • Jun 26 '20

alrighty follow weight is probably the coolest feature I've seen

Mahmoud Ahmed • Jun 26 '20

Thank you.

Is it available to explore 'All' tags feed (including the ones I am not following)?
I just don't know if it's available and I have to sign out or explore the website in incognito mode to do so.